Winner of GC Gift Certificate…

Sarah Coller won the $15 gift certificate contest I posted last week! It can be spent anywhere in our store at anytime. We’ll be running a sale on our homemade skin products soon, so be sure to watch for a chance to save!

Congratulations, Sarah!!!

Enter to Win $100, $200 or $300 From Vision Forum!!!

Without a doubt, the books and resources from Vision Forum have been some of the most encouraging and inspirational to us over the years. From parenting children to love the Lord to building a strong marriage, I am so thankful for the great books that had become part of our family library (which we are now slowly building back since the storm swept our library away!)

So I am all the more excited to announce this incredible give away! Vision Forum has offered me three incredible gift certificates to give away to Generation Cedar readers!  

Win a $300, $200 or $100 to spend this Christmas!

Here’s how:

For the chance to win $300, you MUST blog about this give away (link back here somewhere in your post) and include the words “Christian Books”, linking those words to visionforum.com. Be sure to comment on THIS post; comments are where winners are drawn from.

To receive additional entries and enter to win the $100 and $200 gift certificates, do any or all of the following:

• Facebook this giveaway (you can use the FB widget at the bottom of the post)
• “Like” Generation Cedar on Facebook
• Subscribe to our newsletter (found on the lower portion of the sidebar)
• Share “Our Products” page on Facebook
• Don’t forget to leave a comment to be entered for these prizes!

This is the biggest giveaway I can remember from Vision Forum so you don’t want to miss out!

Here are just a few of my favorite Christian books and resources from Vision Forum:

Family-Driven Faith

When You Rise Up

The Family

Queen of the Home

Passionate Housewives

The Hopeful Theology of Miscarriage

We Cannot But Speak

How to Disciple Your Family

Hurry! Contest ends December 3rd!

Early Sale AND a Give Away: The Perfect Gift…Cheaper!

~~Give the perfect gift…CHEAPER!~~

(Facebook this sale for a chance to win a $15 gift certificate!

Details below…)

Get ahead of the Black Friday madness, save money and simplify your gift giving this Christmas…why not give gift certificates to spend here at our website on our natural skin products, our Scripture CD or our ebooks?

For 3 days only, get $5, $10 or $15 off your gift certificate purchases! (Discounts will be refunded as rebates after your purchase.)

I’ve got 3 really great reasons why buying a gift certificate from us is smart:

1.  With this sale, you get more for your money which makes you a resourceful, frugal gal. For each one you buy, you get to tell your husband how much money you saved . And how ’bout this…you save tax, gas money and even shipping on this one!

2.  With every purchase from Generation Cedar, you are supporting a small family business which is especially awesome right now as it helps us as we rebuild our house (and hubby is out of work) from April’s tornadoes.

3.  Your gift recipient will LOVE their products! Whether they choose our natural skin products or our Scripture CD or even our ebooks, you can be sure they are receiving a quality product that will enhance their lives in some way.

So, what are you waiting for??? The more you spend, the more you save–that’s the way I think a sale should be. You will receive a rebate for your purchase shortly after checkout.

There is no limit to the number of certificates you can purchase with this discount.

****If you Facebook this sale and then leave a comment telling me you did, you will automatically be entered to win your own $15 gift certificate!!!****

Sale and giveaway end Wednesday night at midnight and winner will be announced Monday.

Who Won “Embracing the Mess”?

Congratulations to our 2 winners of Embracing the Mess….

Lia (#15) and Kim F (#27)!!!

And remember, you can get this wonderfully encouraging ebook about balancing busy home keeping with keeping hearts for $1 off by entering the code “findingjoy” at checkout!

Go see what Embracing the Mess is all about!

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You can see I’ve updated our design. I’m still tweaking it. Any feedback you have is appreciated…particularly regarding the tagline and the background color. I want you to feel “at home” here and so your opinion is really all that matters!

Win a Free Copy of “Embracing the Mess”!

When I read my friend, Jenny’s new ebook, Embracing the Mess, it was like a combination of relief, seeing that other moms struggle with exactly the same “perfectionist battles” I do, and peace, reading how the Lord was helping Jenny by peeling back the layers of the real mission of motherhood.

Here is the reality: if you are a mom of more than two children, you are in a minority of women, and there are fewer and fewer places for you to turn for encouragement and just to get a practical idea of what all of this is supposed to look like. I think the unnatural size of most families coupled with years of feminist persuasion has most women feeling like a failure when they’re suddenly faced with the challenges of a growing family.

I think that’s why Embracing the Mess was such an exciting read for me…it fills a void. A void of teaching and encouragement that is rare because the women with real experiences in the “motherhood trenches” are rare.

“What do you do when all your pretty little world of control falls apart through these lovely little chubbycheeks that we want to spend all day kissing? How do wefind grace in the unraveling? How do we embrace the mess?”

It’s not enough that we teach the younger women to desire more children and desire to be home. We must make them fit for this task with practical encouragement and help they can hold onto. That’s what Jenny has done with this book.

“The house gets cluttered, messy and disheveled…and my mind gets cluttered,out of frame and cranky. That’s when the test comes. That is when my true heart is revealed. That is when it is shown whether this gift is being used for His glory…or has turned into an idol in my heart.”

If you struggle with balancing the desire to invest your days in the relationships at home but also struggle with irritability over a less-than-tidy home, Embracing the Mess will meet you there and inspire you to carry out a balanced approach with practical help to boot.

Jenny has graciously offered to give away 2 copies of her new book!  All you have to do to enter is subscribe to her blog. For extra entries, share the giveaway on Facebook (you can use the FB button below this post) and “like” her Facebook page, entering a separate comment on this post for each thing.

If you are eager to get it now, get $1 off by entering the code “findingjoy”.

PLUS…starting Tuesday, Jenny is featuring a series on turning your bedroom into a haven. Anyone who would like to participate with before and after pictures gets a FREE copy of Embracing the Mess!